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Tag Tag Objectivity
The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.
Albert Einstein Ideas and Opinions · 1954

Quotes

“Altogether too often, people substitute opinions for facts and emotions for analysis.”

Andrew S. Grove · Only the Paranoid Survive, 1996 · Primary source

“In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.”

Marie Curie · Madame Curie: A Biography, 1938 · Secondary source

“The life of Darwin demonstrates how a turtle may outrun a hare, aided by extreme objectivity, which helps the objective person end up like the only player without a blindfold in a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey.”

Charlie Munger · Poor Charlie’s Almanack, 2005 · Primary source

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